
In a hotel room, Amanda sits in front of a large glass window sipping wine as she looks out the window. His mind wandered somewhere, his eyes looking at the atmosphere of the city at night filled with neon lights. His facial expression looked agitated and angry, I don't know how long he had been sitting there. One bottle of wine was almost gone by himself because his mind was in turmoil.
Regretted? Amanda doesn't feel the need to regret anything! To him, everything that happened to him was an incident that was deliberately created to get rid of him. Why should he be the one experiencing all this? For so long his life was fine, he lived a luxurious life with a treasure but overnight everything seemed to be taken from him.
What's wrong? Nothing is wrong! What's wrong is the appearance of Arimbi who messed things up. As if fate hasn't played him enough, yet, trouble after trouble befell him until he was driven away in a very cunning way under the pretext that he would calm down in the village with his biological family turned out to be just a subtle way of driving him out of the Rafaldi residence.
‘Tomorrow I have to go to mom's house! Ah, I should have been there to pick up my stuff! But Gio taking me away is impossible to resist! He is willing to help me! Hopefully my items are still there at least I have a lot of jewelry that I can sell for capital to continue living. Did I just ask Gio for a job?’
‘I'm now an unemployed! No home, no way I'm staying in a hotel! How can I rent an apartment or a house? Aihhhh! Why is my life like this? Unemployment! No house anyway. No.....no......would I rather just buy a house? But if my savings I use to buy a house, while I'm not working? How do I finance my life?”
Amanda took a sip of the rest of the wine and put the glass on the table and stood up. His hand was twitching his temple because he felt his head was a bit heavy and it hurt to drink too much. He stepped onto the bed and threw out his body. But……
Suddenly he got up and ran to the bathroom..uweeekkkkk! He spewed out all his stomach. After a long time of vomiting, Amanda felt her nausea was reduced but her body was so limp that she had to hold on to walk.
With great difficulty he walked back to the bed and lay down. His headache became worse, he tried to close his eyes while massaging his head.
‘Lusa Reza's wedding party! Do I have to be there and see her with that woman? Ah, why would I vomit again anyway?’ he felt nausea again in his stomach. Amanda felt very limp and limped walking towards the bathroom by holding on to the wall so she wouldn't fall. His feet like soft jelly had no strength.
‘I can't throw up here! It must smell and I won't be able to sleep all night.’ he murmured.
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“Good morning....” said the Emir kissed his wife's lips.
“Eughhh Arimbi tightened his arms around the Emir's neck, sucked his head into the Emir's chest and wrapped his legs around the man's waist. He looks like a koala, making the corner of Emir's lips lifted to see the action of his wife who is always lazy to wake up in the morning.
“Arimbi! Wake up!” Emir wiggles his wife's shoulder wakes up.
“Eeeeuughh.....I want to sleep!” arimbi replied in an almost inaudible voice.
“It's seven in the morning! You don't work today?” the Emir kissed his wife's face to wake her up. Arimbi's hand pushed the Emir away.
“Let me sleep! I am still sleepy once.” he replied softly.
“You're okay, right? I'll call dad if you don't want to come into the office today.”
“Ehm....” only that is spoken Arimbi who is back slumbering.
“Fuuuhhh! Yes, already then. Continue your sleep, I want to get ready first.”
Arimbi did not respond because he did not hear the Emir's words. He then went into the bathroom to clean himself up. After fifteen minutes, the Emir came out of the bathroom and found Arimbi still asleep while snoring softly. He only smiled shaking his head then moving towards the wardrobe.
While the exhausted Arimbi chose to continue his sleep and take leave. The Emir had contacted his father-in-law to ask for leave for Arimbi.
As usual, the Emir had breakfast in the pavilion without Arimbi. And it could not be separated from the supervision of a servant who immediately rushed to the main house to report.
“Good morning Big Mistress.” the waiter greeted with respect.
“What are you in such a hurry? Say!” layla Serkan.
“Mr Emir breakfast alone without the company of Mrs Arimbi, Big Lady! According to the waiter there that Madame Arimbi has not come down from her room. Looks like Madam Arimbi is not well.”
Hearing the servant's report, Granny Serkan stopped eating and called her butler.
“Yaya!”
“Iya, Mistress.”
“Create a healthy breakfast and deliver to villa Emir!”
The confused Yaya looked at the servant who was standing not far from her. The order Layla Serkan gave was less clear, not saying who the breakfast was for. Because the main kitchen has delivered breakfast to the Emir villa.
“Quickly have the chef make it and deliver it to Emir's wife immediately!” Layla Serkan felt it taboo to mention Arimbi's name so she only mentioned ‘wife Emir’.
“Good Mistress. Immediately I work on.” replied Yaya who soon passed to the main kitchen.
“You can go. Ask the waiter there to call the doctor.”
“Good Mistress.”
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This morning Amanda felt better after spewing out all her guts last night. She put on her pale face, styled her hair and after feeling that she looked good enough, she grabbed her car keys and walked out of the room. His body still felt weak, he decided to have breakfast at the hotel. He went down to the hotel restaurant and picked a table by the window.
The road this morning was quite jammed, Amanda drove her vehicle to the Rafaldi residence to take all her belongings that were still left there.
Thirty minutes later he arrived at the gate of the house that was sealed shut. Amanda pulled out the remote to open the gate but the gate remained closed. He tried several times but still did not succeed.
‘Ck! Why remote? What's broken?” he threw the remote and honked his car horn. Before long the small door next to the gate opened and a security guard came out and noticed the license plate of Amanda's car he had known.
“Quick open the gate!” amanda lowered her car window.
“Sorry Miss! If you want to enter please get out of the car and fill in the guest book first. I have to report first in order to get permission to open the gate.” replied the security guard who immediately made Amanda angry.
“Heh! Whatdidyou say? I live here! My house! Quickly open the gate! I tried to open it with my remote but it looks like the remote is broken.”
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